Marlon Chicas

About Marlon Chicas

With over 18 years of leadership in Facilities Management, I have built a career in optimizing large, complex operations and driving efficiency in leading healthcare and biotech companies. My expertise covers facilities operations, from managing high-budget projects and large-scale teams to implementing innovative strategies that ensure safety, compliance, and operational excellence.I specialize in leading facilities teams to maintain high-performing, sustainable environments that align with business goals. A crucial part of my approach is leveraging technology, such as SAP-based CMMS systems, to enhance asset management, streamline workflows, and improve facility performance. My leadership has directly contributed to obtaining a ‘Class A’ designation for corporate facilities and implementing best-in-class maintenance and safety practices.Key Highlights:• Comprehensive Facilities Oversight: Managed facilities services for large sites, ensuring seamless operations across production, research, and corporate environments. Controlled an inventory of over SKUs with a budget of $24 million, driving operational efficiency and reducing downtime.• Under my leadership, I developed and enforced safety protocols, leading initiatives that significantly strengthened the safety culture across all levels of the organization. My hands-on leadership in EHS has ensured total compliance with GMP and regulatory standards while creating safer workspaces.• Through my leadership, we led projects that dramatically improved operational workflows, reducing receiving time from over 60 days to under 48 hours. By enhancing spare parts management, I contributed $1 million in cost savings and increased equipment reliability.• Strategic Facilities Planning: Partnered with senior leadership on long-term facilities planning and optimization, ensuring the alignment of site operations with corporate growth and sustainability goals.• Vendor and Budget Management: Successfully managed multi-million-dollar vendor contracts and optimized service agreements while delivering cost-saving strategies such as redefining material certificate requirements, resulting in a savings.By combining a focus on operational excellence with strategic facilities management, I deliver results that keep environments safe, efficient, and aligned with business objectives. Let’s connect to explore how we can collaborate to optimize your facilities\' operations for the future.

Experience

1. Maintenance, Repair, Operation (Mro) Lead

   SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

   Oct 2024 — Present · Menlo Park, CA, US

   Managing facilities support through inventory control, procurement coordination, and safety compliance, leading projects to optimize maintenance parts and material availability to streamline SLAC operations.

Education

• Heald College-San Francisco

  Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology

  2000 — 2002

• DeVry University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Technical Management

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Inventory Management
• Change Control
• Inventory Control
• Data Analysis
• Six Sigma
• Standard Operating Procedure (Sop)
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Google Docs
• Quality Assurance
• Sap
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• 5s
• U.s. Food and Drug Administration (Fda)
• Procurement
• Manufacturing
• Sap Products
• Lean Tools
• Sap Erp
• Sap R/3
• Lean Operations
• Keynote
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Business Process Improvement
• Sop
• Fda
• Protein Chemistry
• Customer Service
• Technology Transfer
• Analysis
• Preventive Maintenance
• Vendor Management
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Software Documentation
• Materials Management
• Project Management
• Gmp
• Management
• Team Building